measured my waist and OMG it is 33inches, but how come I can get in to size 12 and sometimes size ten clothes?!

[ValiumSingleton]

I knew I'd put on weight but didn't realise it was 7 lbs... Bravely weighed myself yesterday and measured my waist and calculated my BMI which is now over 25 for the first time ever. Yikes. Waist 33" no matter how many times I did it.

i think I read somewhere that anybody with a waist measurement of more than 32 needs to watch their heart, but that can't be right surely!? I'm not exactly huge.

I am going to lose 7lbs though.... I am.

ps, forgot to say, just looking at the measurements on Boden site and a waist measurement of 33" makes me a size 16, but I definitely am not.

Still, not kidding myself, I am only small and I am starting to look quite rotund, whatever 'dress size'.

The british high street sizes are all out of wack. I am 39-29-39 & can fit into things from size 8 (pair of shite linen trousers from Peacocks) to size 16 (black waiscoat top thing from New Look).

Obviously I am neither of those sizes but it doesn't stop it being annoying!

Re your waist size - have you tried a DVD called 30 DAY SHRED by Jillian Micheals - it'll reduce your waist & give you abs .. its amazing

I'll have a look at that on Amazon now. thanks, time for action. My image of myself is not a big girl, so at the moment I have the opposite of anorexia. Or I did, until my denial was pierced. (not making light of Anorexia btw)

Valium - I think you & I may have the same problem - I have always had a positive take on how I look & sometime photos jolt me out of that (or did do b4 I started Shredding)

Is it high impact, the dvd!? not sure the floorboards are up to anything too strenuous. (of course I am up to it! )

I read some of the reviews and it is clearly not a walk in the park. Not saying that's BAD.

3 minutes of weights, 2 minutes cardio (full on star jumps, skipping without the rope so your floor boards may take a pounding - 'tis only 20 minutes though) and 1 minute abs. It really works, I've stopped doing it just lately, but my arms are still toned.

Clothes sizes have gone to pot these days. At the mo I am a 35,27,38 and I am easily in a size 10. When I was 18 I weighed well over a stone less than I do now and was a 32,23,36 and wore a size 12 on the bottom, always, and a 10 on the top, could never get in an 8. With measurements like that now, you'd be a 4 on top I reckon. I am only 31, so not like it was decades ago!

I have found the 30 day shred fantastic for toning up and losing that last couple of pounds.

I dkwym about body image. I had always been very slim, but after I had my son went up to over 12 stone and wore a size 14 for a long time, still thought of myself as very slim, until a few pics put me straight!

Good luck!